Fishes/Amphibians
This adaptation helps maintain buoyancy in bony fishes.
What is a swim bladder?
The term for an organism whose body temperature is influenced by the environment.
What is an ectotherm?
The term for an organism whose body temperature is maintained internally, regardless of outside temperatures.
What is an endotherm?
Mammal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
When animals form a social attachment to the first object they see after birth.
What is imprinting?
A membrane to protect a frog's eye.
What is a nictitating membrane?
A protective membrane and porous, leathery shell enclosing the developing embryo.
What is an amniotic egg?
The two main functions of feathers.
What is flight and insulation?
These two characteristics are unique to mammals.
What are mammary glands and hair?
Thinking, reasoning, and processing information to understand complex concepts and solve problems.
What is cognitive behavior?
This structure evolved to form jaws in ancient fishes.
What are anterior gill arches?
Two pits in the roof of a snake's mouth that help them sense odors (detect chemicals).
What is the Jacobson's organ?
This helps to crush food birds have swallowed.
What is the gizzard?
This feature is only present in a mammal's respiratory system.
What is a diaphragm?
This results from an interaction between innate behaviors and past experiences within a particular environment.
What is learned behavior?
This particular fish group includes fish that have a primitive lung(s).
What are lobe-finned fishes?
This reptile order has 4-chambered hearts, while other reptiles have a 3-chambered heart.
What is Order Crocodilia?
These (3) structures allow birds to have the ability to fly.
What are feathers, wings, and a lightweight skeleton?
Mammals that reproduce by laying eggs.
What are monotremes?
The decrease in an animal’s response after repeatedly being exposed to a stimulus that has no positive or negative effects.
What is habituation?
This is how amphibians in the larvae stage breathe.
What is the exchange of gasses through their skin and gills?
The term for when a female lays eggs that hatch outside of her body.
What is oviparous?
This secretes oil to add a waterproof coating to the feathers.
What is the preen gland?
An extinct vertebrate with both mammalian and reptilian features.
What is a therapsid?
An animal learns to associate its response to a stimulus with a reward or a punishment.
What is operant conditioning?